New Delhi: CBI Tuesday carried out searches in four cities, including Delhi and Mumbai, in connection with its probe in the Saradha and Seashore chit fund scams running into several crores of rupees.

The searches were being carried also at various places in Odhisa and Kolkata which included premises of some politicians as well, CBI sources said.

The CBI action came a day after the agency filed its second charge sheet in the case alleging that former director general (state armed police) and Trinamool Vice President Rajat Majumdar and East Bengal Club official Debabrata Sarkar were beneficiaries of the money collected through chit fund scam.

Others named in the charge sheet included Saradha chairman Sudipta Sen, executive director Debjani Mukherjee, a city-based businessman Sandhir Agarwal and his father Sajjan Agarwal, and Assam-based singer Sadananda Gogoi.